I have a Dell Studio Laptop 1535 with Windows Vista OS. The optical drive does not recognize DVDs. It plays music disks (CDROMS) and plays demos of videos which were installed at the factory. I have followed all the instructions in the Help file relevant to this matter. The report states that the media is not readable (TSSTcorpDVD+-RW TS T633A) and that the drive is not readable or the...

When I use ie7 in vista in an administrator account, it says protected mode is on. Is this equivalent to running the browser in a limited user account? And does that mean no virus/malware can infect my PC even if I accidentally click on a malicious URL?

When I use ie7 in vista in an administrator account, it says protected mode is on. Is this equivalent to running the browser in a limited user account? And does that mean no virus/malware can infect my PC even if I accidentally click on a malicious URL?

Can somone help me please? I cannot Download Security M/S Updates and now there are (85) of them See Below! There seems to be a lot of this C...P going on! However mine is more unusual and I have tried the Start RUN CMD sys32 etc" Nothing I have also tried “all Firewalls off" and I have also checked IE 7 tools options security level etc" all Ok? However the last suggestion involved...

Windows needs a basic bootmode for gaming that stops all unnecessary services and processes from loading in the RAM and running in the background. Like in MSCONFIG you select GAME BOOT then restart your machine with networking to play these more sophisticated games like Battlefield series or flight simulators or whatever. It would be so nice of Microsoft to make an update to Win Vista to allow...

I need to boot directly from hibernate or sleep into a running program, without the USERNAME icon appearing and requiring a keystroke from me. I have my computer set to automatically wake up at 9AM and start trading stocks on an automated protram basis. Please Help or direct me to remove that Icon from appearing. "Chad Harris" wrote: In addition to Jimmy's always extremely well written...

"Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello, I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post, I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn UAC off, and answer some common questions and respond to common...

I recently had a Trojan and Symantec anti virus removed it. However when I uninstalled Symantec (I wanted to place in another anti-virus) Windows Security became unavailable. If I go to Control Panel Security nothing happens. When I try to access Windows Defender then I immediately get a blue error screen. Now whenever I open up Internet Explorer sometimes strange noises start to happen as if...

vista tried to update. All the updates took except for kb954155. I have tried to do the stand alone update and it will not take. I have gone into the datastore and removed the folders in there to try and get it to install with no luck any ideas? -- Megabyteme

Does anyone know of any good alternatives to the messenger service.. IE: the ability to send broadcast messages to multiple PCs, vista included? Perhaps something other than Office Communicator, maybe a 3rd party app I'm not aware of? As an admin, the broadcast message is vital to communicating information that is timely related to systems down time etc...

Everytime I start, Windows Defender says Failed to intialize 0x800106ba A problem caused this program's service to stop. To start service, restart or search help and suppot to start it mannually What is this 0x800106ba? Is it important?:shock: Restart does not solve this.

Hi All, I am doing smart card logon on Vista 64 bit machine (with Service pack 2 installed) using default Windows Credential Provider Tile and certificate on my smart card. My CSP is signed by Microsoft. When I insert smart card, Windows default credential provider tries to read the certificate present in smart card. After few seconds, it gives the following error \"No Valid certificates found...

Hi All, I am doing smart card logon on Vista 64 bit machine (with Service pack 2 installed) using default Windows Credential Provider Tile and certificate on my smart card. My CSP is signed by Microsoft. When I insert smart card, Windows default credential provider tries to read the certificate present in smart card. After few seconds, it gives the following error \"No Valid certificates found...

I use file shredder- Gutmann method to delete the files permanently, but will they be restored in some ways? Thanks.

I used to use ZoneAlarm, but found it source-consuming in Vista. I am wondering if the Vista firewall is worse than independent firewall, such as Zone Alarm or not? I don't see any reports from vista firewall, and I am suspicious of its strenth against the attack from internet. Any opinions?

I used to use ZoneAlarm, but found it source-consuming in Vista. I am wondering if the Vista firewall is worse than independent firewall, such as Zone Alarm or not? I don't see any reports from vista firewall, and I am suspicious of its strenth against the attack from internet. Any opinions?

Please tell me what is the best encryption software under Vista or Win 7. And what is the advantage and disadvantage of independent encryption software and Bitlocker in Vista/Win 7? Thanks

Well the subject header says it all! Vista Home Premium has been working ok for a couple of weeks when suddenly it reports that Defender is not switched on, and I have no anti-virus software loaded. Well, Defender is on and Avast! is definitely loaded and working. If I try to switch Defender on it searches for updates and still says it's switched off. I've re-installed Avast! and I'm still...

This question posted on Microsoft Technet has not provided any results. Where can one find information on Vista port reporting and available parsers. Any help is greatly appreciated.

This question posted on Microsoft Technet has not provided any results. Where can one find information on Vista port reporting and available parsers. Any help is greatly appreciated.